I wonder how many of the Monty Python performers would prefer to live in the country they mocked rather than the one they have now. I doubt they are even capable of making the connection.
Noteworthy how rarely the full text of "This Land" is sung with its condemnation of private property and No Trespassing signs. If Bozette the Clowness is elected POTUS it may become more popular.
I never read the whole lyrics to the British national anthem before! "Confound their politics." How very British.
A Canadian woman once mocked the U.S. for not having the country's name in the national anthem lyrics. I pointed out that's the case with many, many countries. For example Britain, France, Sweden, Finland (My land, my land, my dear fatherland), the Netherlands, Argentina, Japan.
Spain's national anthem doesn't have any words because, "so many regions would refuse to sing in Spanish." One of four anthems without any lyrics, along with San Marino, Bosnia and Kosovo.
You often hear that "the U.S./French national anthem is about war!" Or, "why is the British anthem about the king, huh?" The leftists will never mention the absolute royal worship and racial pride outside the Occident.
Cambodia:
Heaven protects our King
And gives him happiness and glory
To reign over our souls and our destinies,
The one being, heir of the Sovereign builders,
Guiding the proud old Kingdom.
Temples are asleep in the forest,
Remembering the splendour of Moha Nokor.
Like a rock the Khmer race is eternal.
Let us trust in the fate of Kampuchea,
The empire which challenges the ages.
Songs rise up from the pagodas
To the glory of holy Buddhistic faith.
Let us be faithful to our ancestors' belief.
Thus heaven will lavish its bounty
On the ancient Khmer country, the Moha Nokor.
Thailand:
The flesh and blood of every Thai united,
This land of Thailand sacred to every Thai!
Their sway since days of yore persisted,
Love and unity heart of every Thai!
Though the Thais love peace, dauntlessly we fight,
Our freedom shan't be taken away.
We'll sacrifice ourselves with every might,
Long live Thailand's glory and victory, hooray!
Thailand earlier anthems:
1934-39:
Let us all sacrifice our lives
To maintain the rights to freedom the land of Siam
That the ancestors tried to fight until their death
Eliminate the enemies of Thailand to perish
...
All of us, we are of Thai blood
Don't allow anyone to oppress us
Protect rights and freedom
In disaster helped each other until the day of death
1932-34:
The Siamese land is renowned as the land of gold.
The Thais have conquered this beautiful land.
The Thai people have served it ever since the Ancient times.
United, we have defended it
In some eras, our foes have attacked us.
But the Thais sacrificed their lives to save their motherland.
With blood, we fought for our sovereignty
And hitherto we have kept Siam alive.
This Siamese land is the bulwark of the Thai race
Our blood runs through this nation's veins.
Independence is like a pagoda we honor
We will rise and stand as one.
To protect our motherland and sovereignty so dear.
> So women sprinters notoriously have ample time on their hands for doing ridiculous things with their hair, fingernails, and jewelry
I mean, it isn't THAT time consuming. I think it's more that drag (the physics concept) is less of an issue at the shorter events. I don't think pole vaulters have such things, because the more accoutrements they have, the more likely they are to knock over the bar. As it stands a French pole vaulter knocked over the bar because his large penis got in the way. Yes, really.
I would say "America (My Country Tis of Thee)" is the alternative national anthem, not This Land is Your Land. I rarely if ever have heard This Land is Your Land performed at public events or concerts.
Maybe it is different in places completely overrun by immigrants though.
Steve meant alternative in a sense that it is a 180-degree paradigm shift from the official one. As for the alternative anthem that is played the most, I would say it's God Bless America. The problem with My Country Tis of Thee is that it uses the same music as God Save the King.
Neglect of Guthrie's biggest hit may have something to do with how his atheist to-armsers (sample lyric: "You'll have pie/ In the sky/ When you die (That's a DIRTY LIE!)" met with mixed reactions at Bible Belt hoedowns.
It's also possible that his entry in the USO campaign to shore up our troops' morale -- a paean to a records-busting WWII sniperette -- might have made a few Bircher types uneasy:
"Miss Pavilichenko, you're well known to fame --
Russia's your country, fightin's your game --
This whole world'll love you for a long time to come
'Cause more'n three hundred Nazis fell by your gun!
--
You just lift your AK an' down comes a Hun!
Yep, you Soviet girls make it hard on th' scum!
More'n three hundred Nazis fell by your gun,
Fell by your gun, yeah, they fell by your gun!"
Even now, shadows of free thought and feminism, and a faint blush of pink, may diminish his profile at stadium events that go heavy on the red, white, and blue.
Maybe I got the word "AK" wrong when I wrote down the lyrics as I was listening to them and dilatorily didn't check them against the sheet music. To be continued momentarily --
Okay, you were right. The lyrics are transcribed a little differently in different places but they all have the line as "You lift up your sight. And down comes a hun". Mea culpa and GOOD CATCH.
Isn’t “sight” an odd word to sing over that note, though? At first I thought he just means her "gaze", but I suppose it more likely refers to the 4x Zeiss-clone scope on her sniper variant of the Tokarev SVT-40 semi. I’d have thought he’d just say “rifle”.
The SVT and the M1 Garand, also a gas semiauto, fire similar rounds, both at 2,800 feet per second, with the Garand’s effective range of 500 yards against supposedly 600 for the SVT. Beyond that the many differences become more complex and more matters of what you're doing with the piece and what style of shooter you are. At any rate, some collectors stick with the American weapon and others prefer the Russian one.
Of course today, on the threshold of the Skynet Scenario, all this is sounding quaint. To think that those were the days, or may turn out to have been the days…
"America the Beautiful" is a classy song, with those amber waves of grain; and "This Land Is Your Land" is also a classy song, even if written by a red. It speaks to the way a lot of people used to travel. It references real places which is always good. It is easy to sing. And frankly, as much as your conception of private property means to you - in the West it tends to be frequently illegitimate, as often as not promulgated by the sort of people who actually own no property. And as often as not, private property is violated by the government itself, with the eager complicity of those private citizens whose property it is not, who think they will make some money out of the violation. (And as frequently are maddeningly wrong about that ...) Over and over and over again this happens without a peep from "conservatives". But I admit I temperamentally hate to see a fence splashed with purple paint. It signals hostility. Which is not to say I plan to jump over the fence and get shot. But I'd not choose to become neighbors with such a person, nor would I seek their aid.
A sign on the gate, enough to protect you in case of legal question, really ought to be enough. Don't really need one every 30 feet ...
I mean, have you guys ever looked up your official state songs? "I Love You, California"? "Here We Have Idaho"? I think the official state song of Louisiana will surprise you. Wikipedia says New Jersey is the only state that has declined to name a state song.
You'd be lucky to have something as good as "This Land Is Your Land".
Here is something that is in Steve's wheelhouse: The semi-finals and finals of the men's 100 meter dash will be held in Paris tomorrow. Out of the 24 qualifiers, there are only two from Asia. The first is Abdul Hakim Sani Brown of Japan whose father is Ghanian, so he qualifies as black. The other is Puripol Boonson of Thailand. He seems to be full-blooded Thai but the problem is that out of the 24th he is 24th. His personal best in the event is 10.06s and the top 8 qualifiers all ran it in 10.02 or better, so unless he runs the race of his life, he won't qualify either.
Therefore, if form holds, then out of the last 88 qualifiers for the 100m men's finals, 87 will be black, with Su Bingtian of China being the sole exception in Toyko 2020. Su did not enter this year's Olympics but it is unclear why.
It turns out that they are using 9 lanes in the semifinals, so there are 27 qualifiers. Boonson came in third in the fourth heat, so he automatically qualified for the semifinals; there are also three wild cards who qualified.
If anyone is interested in following along, the semifinals are scheduled to start at 11 am Los Angeles time. Boonson will be in Lane 1 in the third heat.
Well the field is now set. Boonson came last in his heat and 21st overall after running his semifinal in 10.14s. The eight finalists include three Americans, two Jamaicans, and one each from South Africa, Botswana, and Italy. The Italian was born in El Paso to an Italian mother and a black serviceman American father.
Steve needs to remember the life scenario of top athletes. Those athletes started out as the best on their block, in their school, in their city, in their county, in their state, and finally the best at the national level. Those 100-m sprinters have been treated like divas since they were in high school (or equivalent). They are going to act like divas.
NCAA Women's Softball has a very interesting girly/butch dichotomy. (NOTE these observations are from ten years ago.) The bigger and more butch the female athlete, the more makeup and jewelry and girly stuff they will be wearing. Conversely, the smaller and more conventionally feminine the player, the more rough-and-tumble and no-nonsense they look
I remember watching the NCAA Softball World Series / Finals, UCLA vs (Don't recall but Oklahoma is a good guess). The UCLA First Base(wo)man was a huge black girl who looked like she could have EATEN any other woman on the field. She was so bad-ass, the other team walked her with the bases loaded ala Barry Bonds. And this girl had frilly necklaces and dangly earrings and eye shadow, I mean drag queen or very misguided girl at 7th-grade dance. Fuzzy bits of yarn in her corn rows clearly like the stickers NCAA football players get on their helmets for great plays.
Contrast this with the UCLA shortstop, 5'-nothing and all sorts of unsummarizable evidence showing she was the Team Captain. Probably very conventionally "pretty", underneath all the crusted dirt, kneepads, eye-black, hair in a high ponytail, 100% "GRIT". And even she seemed like she was performing a little bit, playing a grit-dog role to the max.
I have no idea what kind of social or peer-group pressures these women live with, but the results are notably odd and silly sometimes.
You might have to be from New York or New Jersey to appreciate this, but one of Morocco's starting midfielders in Olympic soccer is Amir Richardson, who plays professionally in the top tier in France. Morocco defeated the USA 4-0 in the quarterfinals Friday.
I mention this because he is the son of Micheal Ray Richardson, who played in college at Montana and had an 8-year NBA career, mostly with the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets.
Talent = genetic endowment of explosiveness manifesting in ease of attaining muscle tissue, visual learning, and high standing vertical jump
"Worked out only 8 hours per week." So did Kirk Karwoski, because you can't do more and recover. before the next week. But this is the myth that more work means more achievement; genetic freaks don't have to do as much, but when they do as much, look out.
"This land is my land, because I pay the property taxes on it, you fucking commie leach"
Lyrics as you'd expect:
There was a big, high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted said "Private Property"
But on the backside, it didn't say nothing
This land was made for you and me
"Jerusalem" is specifically English, not British, which may be part of its modern appeal. Fifty years ago, Monty Python mocked it.
I wonder how many of the Monty Python performers would prefer to live in the country they mocked rather than the one they have now. I doubt they are even capable of making the connection.
John Cleese received a few minutes hate a few years ago when he expressed some regret at the direction his native land had taken.
Noteworthy how rarely the full text of "This Land" is sung with its condemnation of private property and No Trespassing signs. If Bozette the Clowness is elected POTUS it may become more popular.
I never read the whole lyrics to the British national anthem before! "Confound their politics." How very British.
A Canadian woman once mocked the U.S. for not having the country's name in the national anthem lyrics. I pointed out that's the case with many, many countries. For example Britain, France, Sweden, Finland (My land, my land, my dear fatherland), the Netherlands, Argentina, Japan.
Spain's national anthem doesn't have any words because, "so many regions would refuse to sing in Spanish." One of four anthems without any lyrics, along with San Marino, Bosnia and Kosovo.
You often hear that "the U.S./French national anthem is about war!" Or, "why is the British anthem about the king, huh?" The leftists will never mention the absolute royal worship and racial pride outside the Occident.
Cambodia:
Heaven protects our King
And gives him happiness and glory
To reign over our souls and our destinies,
The one being, heir of the Sovereign builders,
Guiding the proud old Kingdom.
Temples are asleep in the forest,
Remembering the splendour of Moha Nokor.
Like a rock the Khmer race is eternal.
Let us trust in the fate of Kampuchea,
The empire which challenges the ages.
Songs rise up from the pagodas
To the glory of holy Buddhistic faith.
Let us be faithful to our ancestors' belief.
Thus heaven will lavish its bounty
On the ancient Khmer country, the Moha Nokor.
Thailand:
The flesh and blood of every Thai united,
This land of Thailand sacred to every Thai!
Their sway since days of yore persisted,
Love and unity heart of every Thai!
Though the Thais love peace, dauntlessly we fight,
Our freedom shan't be taken away.
We'll sacrifice ourselves with every might,
Long live Thailand's glory and victory, hooray!
Thailand earlier anthems:
1934-39:
Let us all sacrifice our lives
To maintain the rights to freedom the land of Siam
That the ancestors tried to fight until their death
Eliminate the enemies of Thailand to perish
...
All of us, we are of Thai blood
Don't allow anyone to oppress us
Protect rights and freedom
In disaster helped each other until the day of death
1932-34:
The Siamese land is renowned as the land of gold.
The Thais have conquered this beautiful land.
The Thai people have served it ever since the Ancient times.
United, we have defended it
In some eras, our foes have attacked us.
But the Thais sacrificed their lives to save their motherland.
With blood, we fought for our sovereignty
And hitherto we have kept Siam alive.
This Siamese land is the bulwark of the Thai race
Our blood runs through this nation's veins.
Independence is like a pagoda we honor
We will rise and stand as one.
To protect our motherland and sovereignty so dear.
There will be no mercy for those who dishonor it.
We shall massacre them until their last.
To glorify our great Siamese land, hurrah!
> So women sprinters notoriously have ample time on their hands for doing ridiculous things with their hair, fingernails, and jewelry
I mean, it isn't THAT time consuming. I think it's more that drag (the physics concept) is less of an issue at the shorter events. I don't think pole vaulters have such things, because the more accoutrements they have, the more likely they are to knock over the bar. As it stands a French pole vaulter knocked over the bar because his large penis got in the way. Yes, really.
He did that on purpose.
I would say "America (My Country Tis of Thee)" is the alternative national anthem, not This Land is Your Land. I rarely if ever have heard This Land is Your Land performed at public events or concerts.
Maybe it is different in places completely overrun by immigrants though.
Steve meant alternative in a sense that it is a 180-degree paradigm shift from the official one. As for the alternative anthem that is played the most, I would say it's God Bless America. The problem with My Country Tis of Thee is that it uses the same music as God Save the King.
Neglect of Guthrie's biggest hit may have something to do with how his atheist to-armsers (sample lyric: "You'll have pie/ In the sky/ When you die (That's a DIRTY LIE!)" met with mixed reactions at Bible Belt hoedowns.
It's also possible that his entry in the USO campaign to shore up our troops' morale -- a paean to a records-busting WWII sniperette -- might have made a few Bircher types uneasy:
"Miss Pavilichenko, you're well known to fame --
Russia's your country, fightin's your game --
This whole world'll love you for a long time to come
'Cause more'n three hundred Nazis fell by your gun!
--
You just lift your AK an' down comes a Hun!
Yep, you Soviet girls make it hard on th' scum!
More'n three hundred Nazis fell by your gun,
Fell by your gun, yeah, they fell by your gun!"
Even now, shadows of free thought and feminism, and a faint blush of pink, may diminish his profile at stadium events that go heavy on the red, white, and blue.
Guthrie was a hardcore stalinist. The first AK was created after WW2 hence AK-47 so the 300 nazis she shot with her AK were POWs or civilians.
I’d like to think that he and Pete Seeger are taking turns setting each other on fire for all eternity.
Maybe I got the word "AK" wrong when I wrote down the lyrics as I was listening to them and dilatorily didn't check them against the sheet music. To be continued momentarily --
Okay, you were right. The lyrics are transcribed a little differently in different places but they all have the line as "You lift up your sight. And down comes a hun". Mea culpa and GOOD CATCH.
Isn’t “sight” an odd word to sing over that note, though? At first I thought he just means her "gaze", but I suppose it more likely refers to the 4x Zeiss-clone scope on her sniper variant of the Tokarev SVT-40 semi. I’d have thought he’d just say “rifle”.
The SVT and the M1 Garand, also a gas semiauto, fire similar rounds, both at 2,800 feet per second, with the Garand’s effective range of 500 yards against supposedly 600 for the SVT. Beyond that the many differences become more complex and more matters of what you're doing with the piece and what style of shooter you are. At any rate, some collectors stick with the American weapon and others prefer the Russian one.
Of course today, on the threshold of the Skynet Scenario, all this is sounding quaint. To think that those were the days, or may turn out to have been the days…
"America the Beautiful" is a classy song, with those amber waves of grain; and "This Land Is Your Land" is also a classy song, even if written by a red. It speaks to the way a lot of people used to travel. It references real places which is always good. It is easy to sing. And frankly, as much as your conception of private property means to you - in the West it tends to be frequently illegitimate, as often as not promulgated by the sort of people who actually own no property. And as often as not, private property is violated by the government itself, with the eager complicity of those private citizens whose property it is not, who think they will make some money out of the violation. (And as frequently are maddeningly wrong about that ...) Over and over and over again this happens without a peep from "conservatives". But I admit I temperamentally hate to see a fence splashed with purple paint. It signals hostility. Which is not to say I plan to jump over the fence and get shot. But I'd not choose to become neighbors with such a person, nor would I seek their aid.
A sign on the gate, enough to protect you in case of legal question, really ought to be enough. Don't really need one every 30 feet ...
I mean, have you guys ever looked up your official state songs? "I Love You, California"? "Here We Have Idaho"? I think the official state song of Louisiana will surprise you. Wikipedia says New Jersey is the only state that has declined to name a state song.
You'd be lucky to have something as good as "This Land Is Your Land".
Indeed, "This Land Is Your Land" is a really good song.
So is "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
So is "Dixie."
Here is something that is in Steve's wheelhouse: The semi-finals and finals of the men's 100 meter dash will be held in Paris tomorrow. Out of the 24 qualifiers, there are only two from Asia. The first is Abdul Hakim Sani Brown of Japan whose father is Ghanian, so he qualifies as black. The other is Puripol Boonson of Thailand. He seems to be full-blooded Thai but the problem is that out of the 24th he is 24th. His personal best in the event is 10.06s and the top 8 qualifiers all ran it in 10.02 or better, so unless he runs the race of his life, he won't qualify either.
Therefore, if form holds, then out of the last 88 qualifiers for the 100m men's finals, 87 will be black, with Su Bingtian of China being the sole exception in Toyko 2020. Su did not enter this year's Olympics but it is unclear why.
Thanks.
A Southeast Asian squeezing into the 100m dash semifinals is impressive, even if 24th out of 24. Good for him.
It turns out that they are using 9 lanes in the semifinals, so there are 27 qualifiers. Boonson came in third in the fourth heat, so he automatically qualified for the semifinals; there are also three wild cards who qualified.
If anyone is interested in following along, the semifinals are scheduled to start at 11 am Los Angeles time. Boonson will be in Lane 1 in the third heat.
Well the field is now set. Boonson came last in his heat and 21st overall after running his semifinal in 10.14s. The eight finalists include three Americans, two Jamaicans, and one each from South Africa, Botswana, and Italy. The Italian was born in El Paso to an Italian mother and a black serviceman American father.
Steve needs to remember the life scenario of top athletes. Those athletes started out as the best on their block, in their school, in their city, in their county, in their state, and finally the best at the national level. Those 100-m sprinters have been treated like divas since they were in high school (or equivalent). They are going to act like divas.
in grade school we sang the brilliant parody - no idea who wrote it:
this land is my land
this land aint yer land
i got a shotgun
and you aint got one
if you dont get off
i'll blow yer head off
this land is private property
What's the U2 song about "Over the counter, with a shotgun/ Pretty soon everybody's got one"?
Wow. Those neurons haven't fired since the Long-Long-Ago, in the Time Before Time. Thanks for jolting my memory warehouse..
NCAA Women's Softball has a very interesting girly/butch dichotomy. (NOTE these observations are from ten years ago.) The bigger and more butch the female athlete, the more makeup and jewelry and girly stuff they will be wearing. Conversely, the smaller and more conventionally feminine the player, the more rough-and-tumble and no-nonsense they look
I remember watching the NCAA Softball World Series / Finals, UCLA vs (Don't recall but Oklahoma is a good guess). The UCLA First Base(wo)man was a huge black girl who looked like she could have EATEN any other woman on the field. She was so bad-ass, the other team walked her with the bases loaded ala Barry Bonds. And this girl had frilly necklaces and dangly earrings and eye shadow, I mean drag queen or very misguided girl at 7th-grade dance. Fuzzy bits of yarn in her corn rows clearly like the stickers NCAA football players get on their helmets for great plays.
Contrast this with the UCLA shortstop, 5'-nothing and all sorts of unsummarizable evidence showing she was the Team Captain. Probably very conventionally "pretty", underneath all the crusted dirt, kneepads, eye-black, hair in a high ponytail, 100% "GRIT". And even she seemed like she was performing a little bit, playing a grit-dog role to the max.
I have no idea what kind of social or peer-group pressures these women live with, but the results are notably odd and silly sometimes.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" will be the new US national anthem in another few decades
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing#As_the_%22Black_national_anthem%22
You might have to be from New York or New Jersey to appreciate this, but one of Morocco's starting midfielders in Olympic soccer is Amir Richardson, who plays professionally in the top tier in France. Morocco defeated the USA 4-0 in the quarterfinals Friday.
I mention this because he is the son of Micheal Ray Richardson, who played in college at Montana and had an 8-year NBA career, mostly with the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets.
Talent = genetic endowment of explosiveness manifesting in ease of attaining muscle tissue, visual learning, and high standing vertical jump
"Worked out only 8 hours per week." So did Kirk Karwoski, because you can't do more and recover. before the next week. But this is the myth that more work means more achievement; genetic freaks don't have to do as much, but when they do as much, look out.